A decision on the next EU budget will almost certainly go down to the wire. If an agreement is to be reached, it will take place at the very end of the summit, when all possible arguments and angles ...

I knew I shouldn’t have come. The moment I’d left my car and walked the footpath, I realised my mistake. ...

Please allow me to stick to the tradition of the past few years – of dedicating one of my pre-Christmas articles to some of the best reads I had throughout the year that is drawing to an end....

Consumer confidence is an essential ingredient for any market to flourish and thrive, be it national or cross-border, off-line or on-line....

As Christmas time approaches, most of us don’t want to think about politicians and union leaders, demonstrations or protests, EU statistics and international terrorism, the Census people who won’t leave us alone....

If the letter, in another section of the English language press, by the president of the Nationalist Party General...

You might recall the flowery rhetoric about the Maltese language being recognised as one of the EU’s official languages. So what is our government doing to advance our language, now that we are EU members? ...

In my article “When Democracies are loved and hated” of 20 November, I showed how fifth century Athens, much like the United States of America today, presumed that democracy is the best of all possible ...

As this year draws to a close, I am going to highlight some of the most recent sheer waste, not the waste we generate, but the way we waste our money, our thinking time and resources to achieve such insignificant results. ...

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi is fast approaching the end of his first full year in office, both as Prime Minister and Leader of the Nationalist Party. In many ways, he has had an uphill climb. ...